1936- Famed German Expressionist
animator Oscar Fishinger escaped Nazi Germany for the U.S.

1948- Famed Russian film director
Sergei Eisenstein died of a heart attack.

1963- Bell Jar author Sylvia Plath
laid out bread and butter and two glasses of milk for her children, then stuck
her head into an oven and committed suicide. Her poet husband Ted Hughes who
had abandoned her, waited until 1998 to tell his side of the story. Hughes
wrote stories for his children to explain her death like The Iron Giant.